Saturday, September 26, 2015

Alaibe ready to serve Bayelsans, not through violence, cultism

Good Governance for Change
Initiative, a political organisation, has said that Chief Timi Alaibe is ready
and always willing to serve the good people of Bayelsa but not through violence
and cultism, ITRealms gathered.

“Alaibe is ready and always willing
to serve the good people of Bayelsa but not through violence. He is only
interested in the issues of development in Bayelsa State. In this state, we
know the true practitioners of violence and cultism. Bayelsans cannot forget in
a hurry the atrocities committed by Sylva while he was the governor. Many lives
were wasted on the streets of Yenagoa in what many knew as state sponsored
killings of perceived enemies. So many innocent lives were lost in cross fire
of cult gangs or killer squads who regrettably were introduced to drugs.

“Many can still recollect that these
boys were used as political thugs to intimidate opponents and if the Youth
Vanguard is truthful, it will concede that what played out last Tuesday was a
demonstration of a sordid past aided and abetted by Sylva,” the group said.

GGCI, on Saturday rose in
defence of All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant, Timi Alaibe,
saying he is not desperate for power but running to serve the people of Bayelsa
State. This is coming barely 24 hours after a group sympathetic to ex-Governor
Timipre Sylva, APC Youth Vanguard, had said Alaibe was so desperate for
power.

But the Secretary, GGCI, Mr. Friday
Dressman, in a statement reacted to the claims by APC Youth
Vanguard, saying contrary to insinuations, it was Sylva who had showed
desperation for the job of governor as his conduct indicated during the recent
botched governorship primary of the party.

He, however, clarified that the events of last Tuesday during the primary
election were triggered by Sylva’s “inordinate ambition”, saying they could
have been avoided had the former governor played by the rule rather than
“obsessive inclination to seize power” in what he also referred to as “do or
die politics”.